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While it is inappropriate to swear in a professional or public setting, one study has identified a good reason to do it in private, should the situation call for it. Namely, it can lessen pain in a painful situation.

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Florida Senate Bill 728 would require insurers to cover expensive brand-name opioid drugs even when lower-cost versions are available and would undermine efforts by physicians, pharmacists, health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to determine the most effective pain-management treatments, writes PCMA President and CEO Mark Merritt. "A better way to lower prescription drug abuse would be to embrace the 'safe pharmacies' proposal advocated in Congress by U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis from Florida," Merritt writes.

Not enough companies using outsourcing are opting for best practices to manage such relationships, according to a study by the Offshoring Research Network at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. This article looks at success factors in an outsourcing relationship and how to identify and manage risk.

Hewlett-Packard Chairman Raymond Lane and two directors have announced their resignation from the board in response to shareholder opposition led by major pension funds at the technology company's annual meeting. "After reflecting on the stockholder vote last month, I've decided to step down as executive chairman to reduce any distraction from HP's ongoing turnaround," Lane said. Ralph Whitworth, an executive with an activist investment firm, is Lane's temporary replacement.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has unearthed documents and has analyzed them to conclude that many companies and government officials are using overseas tax havens and trusts to avoid taxes. These people and entities are in Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and the U.S.